[Hopecascade]

Do your SICU patients get recovered directly in the SICU or do they go to PACU first? I would be happy to hear what others facilities do. We do not have a SICU where I work, we have a TRauma Intensive Care Unit and they usually go back to TICU for recovery. Lately they come to the PACU and are downgraded post anesthesia. Or we "hold" them in PACU until a bed opens in TICU, sometimes for days. Our open hearts go to ICU post-anesthesia not to CCU. CCU doesn't get surgical cases for some unknown reason.

[meandragonbrett]

All of our ICU patients go to ICU straight from the OR.

[cardiacRN2006]

Yep, we recover our own pts from surgery in the ICU.

[-MNC_RN-]

All ICU patients go there directly from OR. All floor patients recover in PACU first.

[MayisontheWay]

Originally Posted by -MNC_RN-

All ICU patients go there directly from OR. All floor patients recover in PACU first.

Same here

[Michigan RN]

Same here. They come straight from the OR to us.

[Conrad283]

Most patients go to the PACU before the ICU at my facility.

[ddoosier]

We recover our vented patients.

[nscalern]

Open heart, liver transplant, and intubated pts come direct from OR, all others via PACU.

[RN34TX]

Ours go straight to SICU unless there is no available bed (which so rarely happens ), in which case they are housed in PACU as an ICU overflow patient.

Only certain cases, such as open hearts, go straight to SICU and they must literally make room for this patient as they are not allowed to go to PACU first.